PA815: Parker Duofold Senior. 

Date: c1955

Size: Capped - 5 5/8 inches; posted - 6 3/8 inches.

A beautiful glossy jet black Senior Duofold.  This pen is in excellent condition.  There are no noticeable scratches on either cap or barrel, all the rolled gold trim is bright and unbrassed.  In fact, I have failed to find any damage on this pen at all  The cap has a blue conical top "jewel" with a rolled gold Parker arrow pocket clip and a rolled gold "deco" engraved cap band.  The barrel unscrews for access to the Aerometric filler.  This is, like most of the early examples, is chrome plated.   It shows a little pating wear as is the norm for these earlier sac guards - the rear 1/4 inch of metal has al ittle pitting.  I replaced the in ksac on this pen with a new clean and clear silicone sac as the original, although no preished, was a little bit twisted inside the guard and the pen was not filling to capacity.  The nib is a lovely and large 14 carat gold Parker No. 35 in a fine point.  It is still nice and shiny and undamaged, and clearly bears the date code for 1955, though this is not usually visible as it is on the tang that is inside the section.  

I have fully serviced this pen.  Because of the large ink sac, it holds a good amount of ink.  The nib is very smooth with a good amount of iridium on the tip.  It writes with a lovely wet and consistent fine to medium width line.

A lovely writer and a very good sized large pen.